Remove All Notes Script

[CarlosFMeneses]

What would be the syntax for telling InDesign to remove all notes in a script (Type menu>Notes>Remove All Notes)? Need to add this command to my Globals script.

I currently use CSS4 through CSS5. Edit scripts in ExtendScript Tookit.

Thanks,

- Carlos F. Meneses

[Harbs. · Accepted solution]

To remove all notes in all stories, you'd do something like this:

app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().notes.everyItem().remove();

If you have notes in footnotes or tables, you'd have to deal with those separately.

To simply invoke the menu, you can do this:

app.menuActions.itemByID(47896).invoke();

Harbs

[CarlosFMeneses]

That's great Harbs. Thank you so much.

I was trying to invoke it by menue, but I like your alternative. Where may I find a good reference for all the menu IDs?

THANKS AGAIN!

- Carlos F. Meneses

[Harbs.]

Somewhere on the forum there's a function to build a list of all menu actions.

I usually just plug something like this into Script Bay:

app.menuActions.itemByName("Remove All Notes").id

The id is displayed in the status bar.

You can do something similar with an alert or $.writeln().

[CarlosFMeneses]

Thanks again Harbs. You are a scholar and a gentleman!

[Kasyan Servetsky]

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